You don’t need to have a huge mansion in order to do really neat things in EQ2 housing – this video is of my Templar’s home, Dasie. She’s a halfling (that automatically makes her home amazing without any work) on the Oasis server. Enjoy!
Players will be able to pre-order the next EQ2 expansion starting on January 18th according to the EQ2players web site. On that same note, if you were looking forward to diving into the expansion at the previous release date of February 8th, you’ll have a little bit more of a wait. It’s been said that the expansion will now be releasing the 22nd of February.
As you know, we’ve been working hard on the “Destiny of Velious” expansion pack. It was originally scheduled for release on Feb 8th, but after getting feedback from players, spending time playing the game internally, and discussing ways to make things better, we’ve decided to move the release date back to Feb 22nd instead.
Feb 22nd gives us another couple of weeks for polish, tuning, and a honing of the fun factor for the expansion. We think the wait will be well worthwhile.
Check EverQuest2.com for the announcement on pre-order dates! And also stay tuned for an announcement about a raft of cool events coming out in the week after DoV becomes available!
On a side note, we’ll be adding another batch of players into the Closed Beta on Jan 24th, so if you put in an application and haven’t been accepted yet, don’t give up yet. Your time may be coming! – SmokeJumper announced on the EQ2 forums.
Fine tuning is always a good thing and I have no doubt that the developers and community involved are all working incredibly hard to get this expansion out the door. Thoughts? Please feel free to post them in comments below!
The video sort of explains itself. I picked up Fraps (I typically use Game Cam to record my play sessions but it doesn’t work for this particular game) and decided to record a little of Vanguard. Expect more in the future! Or maybe not, you’ve been warned.
When a game really clicks with me I can count on a specific moment or two when I (literally) take a second and think to myself ‘Woah. THAT is cool!’ Thankfully even with years of games behind me and more game selections than I can shake a stick at, I still have these moments. The majority of the time it’s when I encounter something that is larger than myself. Pictured above: Toxxulia flying around Sundered Frontier in EverQuest 2. When a raid is working on her she has two seperate scripts, one for easy mode and one for hard mode. One of them causes her to fly off around Sundered Frontier and players will often see her (as well as see the emotes). Dragons always seem to elicit those “ohhhh” moments from me in pretty much every game.
In Rift I had that feeling during my first invasion. I mean rifts were neat but they happen so frequently and you can defeat them with a handful of players if there are not more around. Invasions on the other hand, invasions can progress to a massive point and the bosses of these encounters are often times (literally) larger than life. As you and a group of 50 other players try to take on stone giants and other fabled creatures it really gives you a sense of wonder. EQ1 raids also gave me ‘chills’ – back before the days of 24 and 12 person limits.
What was your greatest ‘woah’ moment, in any MMO? Let me know in comments!
Happy gaming, no matter where you find yourself.
Our time is valuable, even our free time. We come up with detailed plans on how to spend every waking moment to make the most of it and even when we’re gaming we like to feel “productive”. I think most of my in game time is spent NOT being what most would count as productive; and that’s how I like it. In games like EVE Online this is especially noticeable because you train skills at the same speed whether or not you’re in game. It is up to you to decide what you do with that in game time.
For myself, I’ve been splitting it between a few things. I do a few little steps towards progression – these include PI, invention, and manufacturing. I wander the systems searching for gravimetric sites to mine from. I tend to get caught up in the other goodies I’ve found like space wrecks, wurmholes, and other random stations in space. It’s just such an incredibly beautiful area I can’t help it. I could waste hours attempting to scan down sites and be perfectly content having not found anything at all (in fact I have done this many a time as I tried to learn the finger arts of honing in on a signal).
There are also missions if I’m looking for something a little more structured. There is people-watching, if I feel the urge to head to Jita or Dodixie – I watch channels and how players interact with one another. I watch the battles that take place, the scams. It reminds me that I’m a part of something bigger (in a weird nerdy way). Some times I run in behind hulks who are mining and salvage from the rat wrecks that dot the asteroid belts. I don’t take their goods mind you (I don’t want to get flagged) but salvaging doesn’t flag you. Most are quite polite and flag their wrecks for me (they turn from yellow to blue) so that I can take the goods too if I want. It’s very kind of them. I don’t enjoy PvP that much and when I do I’d rather go to a different game, so I tend to stay away from it as much as I can. Knowing what kind of gamer I am helps me set up my own personal ‘to do’ lists. Whether it’s wandering the galaxy or running missions.
This isn’t really different for me than any other game. Sure, I enjoy the fact that there are quest givers holding my hand asking for 10 of a various item – but most of my time is spent finishing off these little odd goals for myself that the game doesn’t actually set down for me in black and white. Wandering around on a role play server without a clear goal, perhaps my character starts talking out loud to herself. Better yet – do this on a non-rp flagged server and see what sort of responses you get. It’s the human interaction in everything that makes video games so appealing to me. The fact that I can’t predict how someone will react.
My apologies if this post seems more like a random mesh of words than actual thoughts but it was just something that crossed through my mind this morning. There is no wrong or right way to play a video game. You don’t HAVE to do anything a certain way. Whether you enjoy grouping, don’t enjoy grouping, love to role play, can’t stand to do quests, enjoy raiding and nothing else, the list goes on and on. It’s your free time, and ultimately it’s up to YOU to decide what you enjoy doing and do it. Why spend your very valuable time doing something that you just don’t like doing.
Happy gaming, no matter where you find yourself!
stargrace